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Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic.
Animals that form lasting pair bonds often have symmetrical displays that they make to each other. Famous examples are the mutual presentation of reeds by great crested grebes studied by Julian Huxley , the triumph displays shown by many species of geese and penguins on their nest sites, and the spectacular courtship displays by birds of paradise .
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Really Wild Animals is a children's nature television series, hosted by Dudley Moore as an anthropomorphic globe named Spin. [1] Comprising 13 episodes, it was released between October 24, 1993, and March 6, 1996. It was nominated for five national Daytime Emmy Awards and won one.
A talking animal or speaking animal is any non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language. [1] Several species or groups of animals have developed forms of communication which superficially resemble verbal language, however, these usually are not considered a language because they lack one or more of the defining characteristics, e.g. grammar, syntax ...
Amazing Animals (sometimes marketed as Henry's Amazing Animals for home video) is an educational children's animated TV show series nature program produced by Dorling Kindersley Vision and Partridge Films in association with the Disney Channel. [1] It was originally broadcast on the service in 1996. It also aired on Family Channel in Canada. It ...
Talking animals are a common element in mythology and folk tales, children's literature, and modern comic books and animated cartoons. Fictional talking animals often are anthropomorphic , possessing human-like qualities (such as bipedal walking, wearing clothes, and living in houses).
dictum factum: what is said is done: Motto of United States Navy Fighter Squadron VF-194. dictum meum pactum: my word [is] my bond: Motto of the London Stock Exchange. diem perdidi: I have lost the day: From the Roman Emperor Titus. Recorded in the biography of him by Suetonius in Lives of the Twelve Caesars. dies irae: Day of wrath